大宮紹介 Description of Hikawa Shrine company

Description of Hikawa Shrine company

According to the Shinto shrine, Hikawa Shrine is said to be founded for more than 2,400 years now, that was April of the third year of the Kousyou's Emperor.

Enshrined deity Susanou  is a god of triplet  born from Izanami with Amaterasu Daijin and Tukiyomi gods.
He is known a powerful and disturbing god such as the　exterminate of Yamatano snake（Yamatanoorochi) .
Oonamuchi no mikoto(大己貴命)is a God of domestic management that is the Son of Susanou and handed over the land to "Niniginomikoto" (天孫瓊々杵命).
 Inadahime is the Empress of Susanou and she is the mother of Oonamuchi no mikoto.
This Three Gods were worshiped here for nationwide management and  MinFukuAnhanShou(民福安昌祈願) prayers.
It is believed that the position of this shrine became heavier as the prestige of the Yamato Imperial Court extended to the east.

The place where the shrine is settled is located on the Omiya plateau, and among them, it is located at a high protruding position like a nose, so the place name in the area is called Taka Hana Town.
 In the east side of the Shinto shrine, there was a vast lake called Minuma(見沼), which was the source of rich soil formation.
"Kamanuma", also known as "Misen" is a lake which praised the sacred water which gives rich blessing grace, and Minumatamei(見沼溜井) developed in the Edo era is a large reservoir approximately 39 km around was. It is said that the Kamii pond in the precincts is now a remnant of Minuma, and spring water from the serpent's pond in the god area is abundantly poured.
Even from a geographical point of view, the land which had Minuma are fertile, with good transportation to the east, west, north and south, people are increasingly prosperous and it is believed to have become the foundation of today.

In the 12th emperor's era(景行天皇) , "Yamatotakeru(日本武尊)" has been told that we visited this shrine and prayed for Toui's praying. In the era of the thirteenth emperor(成務天皇), the Izumo family 's brother (兄多毛比命 ) became Musashi Kunzaku by the Imperial Court  and worshiped the Hikawa Shrine, and the shrine's divine power shines more and more.
and it raised the formality.

In the reign of Emperor Shoomu(聖武天皇) about a thousand and two hundred years ago from now it is set as Musashi Ichinomiya.
 It is a Myojin-taisha Shrine listed in Engishiki (an ancient book for codes and procedures on national rites and prayers).Which was established in the era of Emperor Daigo(醍醐天皇).
I keep it for an offering from an official in the monthly Harvest Festival plan.
In addition, I kept it for extraordinary festival in (奉幣) and especially received veneration of the successive reigns thick.

In addition, in the samurai era,  such as Kamakura, Ashikaga, Hojo, Tokugawa etc. successively honor our  shrine.
The Jisyou 4 years(治承四年) Yoritomo(源頼朝公) ordered Sanehira Dohi(土肥次郎実平) to rebuild the shrine.
 In Bunroku 5year's August,   Mr. Tokugawa took charge of Ina Bizen (伊奈備前守忠次) as a magistrate and built everything in the shrin.
In Kanbun 7  year's March,(寛文七年三月), we are constructing a shrine with magistrate Abe Bunngo(阿部豊後守).

Pardon me, there are some wrong in during description of Hikawa Shrine company - I am studing English now.

氷川神社社記
氷川神社は社記によると今から凡そ二千四百年以上、第五代孝昭天皇の御代三年四月未の日の御創立と伝えられます。

御祭神、須佐之男命は天照大御神と月読命とともに伊弉諾命から生まれた三貴子の一神で、八俣大蛇退治など力強く雄々しい神として知られております。
大己貴命は須佐之男命の御子で国土を天孫瓊々杵命（ににぎのみこと）に御譲りになられた国土経営の神です。
稲田姫命は須佐之男命の御妃で大己貴命の御母神です。
この御三神をここにお祀りされたのは国土経営、民福安昌祈願のためであって、大和朝廷の威光が東方に及ぶにつれて、当神社の地位も重くなったと考えられています。

神社の鎮座する地は、大宮台地の上にあり、その中でも鼻のように高く突き出た位置にある為、一帯の地名は高鼻町と呼ばれます。
かつて神社の東側には見沼と呼ばれる広大な湖沼があり、豊かな土壌を形成する元となっておりました。
「神沼」、「御沼」とも呼ばれた見沼は正に豊かな恵みを与えて下さる神聖な水をたたえた湖沼で、江戸時代に開発された見沼溜井は周囲約３９キロに及ぶ大貯水池でした。現在境内にある神池は見沼の名残であるといわれ、神域の蛇の池からの湧水が豊富に注がれております。
地理的な点から見ても、見沼をひかえた土地は肥沃で東西南北に交通の便もよく、人々は益々繁栄し今日の基をなすに至ったものと思われます。

第十二代景行天皇の御代、日本武尊は当神社に御参拝し東夷鎮定の祈願をなされたと伝わっております。第十三代成務天皇の御代には出雲族の兄多毛比命が朝廷の命により武蔵国造となって氷川神社を奉崇し、善政を敷かれてから益々当社の神威は輝き格式を高めたと伝わります。

今から凡そ千二百年前の聖武天皇の御代には武蔵一宮と定めらた。
醍醐天皇の御代に制定された延喜式神名帳には名神大社として、月次新嘗案上の官幣に預かり、又臨時祭にも奉幣に預かる等、歴朝の崇敬を殊の外厚く受けてまいりました。

また武家時代になっては、鎌倉・足利・北条・徳川氏等相次いで当社を尊仰した。
治承四年源頼朝公が土肥次郎実平に命じて社殿を再建、
文禄五年八月には徳川氏が伊奈備前守忠次を奉行として社頭残らずを造営せしめ、
寛文七年三月には阿部豊後守を奉行として社殿の建立をしております。